
Contemporary Meanings in Physical Geography
From What to Why?
Hodder Arnold (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 27. June 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-340-80690-6 (ISBN)
Description
Over the past twenty years, geography as an academic discipline has become more and more reflective, asking the key questions 'What are we doing?' 'Why are we doing it?'. These questions have, so far, been more enthusiastically taken up by human geography rather than physical geography. Contemporary Meanings in Physical Geography aims to redress the balance.
Written and edited by a distinguished group of physical geographers, Contemporary Meanings in Physical Geography comprises of a collection of international writer's thoughts which reveal personal motivations, and look at tensions in the worlds of meaning in which physical geography is involved. How are the meanings of the physical environment derived? Is the future of physical geography one where the only, or at least the dominant, meanings are framed in the contexts of environmental issues.
Covering a diverse and lively selection of topics, the contributors of this book offer guides to the contemporary debates in the philosophy of physical geography, and introduce the reader to its wider cultural significance. This book is an essential companion to anyone studying, or with an interest in, physical geography.
Written and edited by a distinguished group of physical geographers, Contemporary Meanings in Physical Geography comprises of a collection of international writer's thoughts which reveal personal motivations, and look at tensions in the worlds of meaning in which physical geography is involved. How are the meanings of the physical environment derived? Is the future of physical geography one where the only, or at least the dominant, meanings are framed in the contexts of environmental issues.
Covering a diverse and lively selection of topics, the contributors of this book offer guides to the contemporary debates in the philosophy of physical geography, and introduce the reader to its wider cultural significance. This book is an essential companion to anyone studying, or with an interest in, physical geography.
Reviews / Votes
Designed as a text for those researching physical geography at undergraduate and postgraduate level, this book will inspire, provoke and educate its readers at a fundamental level. From first to last, it challenges and explores the relationships that physical geographers have with the world and their discipline(s).Progress in Physical Geography
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
471 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-80690-6 (9780340806906)
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From What to Why?
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Persons
Andre Roy
Content
Part I Setting the Scene. Previous actors and current influences: trends and fashions in physical geography
Meaning, knowledge, constructs and autobiography in physical geography. Part II: Personal Meanings. Meaning through fieldwork
Reflective on personal motivations
Where did it happen for you? Wondering about geomorphology
Goodbye to geographical reality. Part III: Research Meanings. Constructing biogeographies: on utopias, dystopias and heteropias
Climatology and meaning
The natural science of geomorphology
Implications for an integrated geography
What it means to be a pebble in a highly turbulent stream
Self-organisation and complexity: a new perspective on landscape dynamics
Intergrated environmental systems and ethics: a case study of river basin management
Geomorhological knowledge and landscape knowledge in resource management. Part IV: Futures. 'The writing's on the walls': On style, substance and sellnig physical geography
Conclusion: contemporary meaning in physical geography.
Meaning, knowledge, constructs and autobiography in physical geography. Part II: Personal Meanings. Meaning through fieldwork
Reflective on personal motivations
Where did it happen for you? Wondering about geomorphology
Goodbye to geographical reality. Part III: Research Meanings. Constructing biogeographies: on utopias, dystopias and heteropias
Climatology and meaning
The natural science of geomorphology
Implications for an integrated geography
What it means to be a pebble in a highly turbulent stream
Self-organisation and complexity: a new perspective on landscape dynamics
Intergrated environmental systems and ethics: a case study of river basin management
Geomorhological knowledge and landscape knowledge in resource management. Part IV: Futures. 'The writing's on the walls': On style, substance and sellnig physical geography
Conclusion: contemporary meaning in physical geography.